Margo Sawyer

Professor

Foundations: 3D Foundations

Studio Art: Sculpture + Extended Media

MFA, Yale University
BA, Chelsea School of Art

Throughout her career, Sawyer has created installations, which translate the notion of an ancient sacred space into a contemporary vocabulary. Sawyer is particularlyinterested in relationships between the experience of space and the experience of transcendence—and the ways in which the architectural and ritual converge to create a forum for contemplation and reflection. Recently, Sawyer's practice has focused on creating architectural installations that combine her research in art, architecture and landscape architecture.

Sawyer has been a recipient of numerous awards such as a Fulbright Grant to India and to Japan, the American Academy in Rome, a National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts Award, a Japan Foundation Fellowship and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. She has exhibited nationally in New York, Los Angeles, New Haven, Houston, Dallas and Austin and internationally in the United Kingdom, Italy, India and Japan.